Scientific Revolution People+Vocabulary

6 cards·by Josephine Quao

Nicolas Copernicus

Developed a sun centered model of the universe.

Tycho Brahe

Collected data and provided evidence to support Copernicus’s theory.

Johannes Kepler

Calculated the orbits of planets around the sun, discovered that the orbits were not circular.

Galileo Galilei

Observed that Jupiter’s moons move around the planet, as Earth moves around the sun.

Francis Bacon

Stressed experimentation and observation, the power of technology.

Rene Descartes

Emphasized human reasoning.